Biography

Robbie Ryan is an Irish cinematographer. He is best known for his work in Fish Tank (2009), Slow West (2015), American Honey (2016) and The Favourite (2018) for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Achievement in Cinematography.

Ryan has already work in more than 90 projects as an Cinematographer, including feature length, short films, commercials, and music videos.
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Robbie Ryan is an Irish cinematographer with over 106 projects, including feature films, shorts, commercials, and music videos. A graduate of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, he decided at 14 to pursue cinematography. Ryan frequently collaborates with directors like Andrea Arnold (Wasp, Fish Tank, American Honey) and Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake, The Angels' Share). He met Yorgos Lanthimos in 2015, and they aspired to work together, starting with The Favourite (2018), followed by Poor Things (2023). Since then, Ryan has been Lanthimos' primary cinematographer. He earned Oscar nominations for Best Cinematography for The Favourite and Poor Things. Other works include Marriage Story (2019) and C'mon C'mon (2021). Ryan, a member of the British Society of Cinematographers, also directs music videos and emphasizes visual storytelling across genres.
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Member of BSC (British Society of Cinematographers).

Robbie Ryan was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Cinematography category for his work on The Favourite (2018) but lost to Alfonso Cuarón for Roma (2018).

Graduated from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology.

The human interaction with nature is a phenomenal thing ... How we abuse it, and rip it apart. And sometimes the mess - the leftovers of human inhabitation and decay - looks beautiful because nature grabs it and does something with it. I'm a big believer that there's beauty in everything we look at.

Nowadays you can just grab a DSLR or even your iPhone and make imagery. It's a question of getting your eye to a camera. That's where you learn about composition, by shooting the world around you. It doesn't have to be lit in any special way; there's always natural light. If you can create an interest in the everyday world around you, then you're probably going in the right direction.